Barnes / Sheppard A Companion to Economic Geography

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69272-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Geography

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of humangeography with an essential collection of original essays providinga key to understanding this important subdiscipline. Thecontributions are written by prominent international scholarsoffering a wide-ranging overview of the field.
* * Places economic geography in the wider context ofgeography.
* Contributions from leading international scholars in thefield.
* Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview ofall the major themes in the field.
* Explores key debates, controversies and questions using avariety of historical and theoretical vantage points.
* Charts the important work that has been done in recent yearsand looks forward to new developments in the global economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheppard, Eric

Barnes, Trevor J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Figures and Tables.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnesand Eric Sheppard.
Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography:.
2. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960:Trevor J. Barnes.
3. The Modeling Tradition: Paul S. Plummer.
4. The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialismand the Political Economy of Capitalism: Erik Swyngedouw.
5. Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and WorkingGender: Ann M. Oberhauser.
6. Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography: RonMartin.
7. Poststructural interventions: J. K. Gibson-Graham.
Part II: Realms of Production:.
8. The Geography of Production: Richard A. Walker.
9. Places of work: Jamie Peck.
10. Industrial Districts: Ash Amin.
11. Competition in Space and between Places: Eric Sheppard.
12. Urban and Regional Growth: Peter Sunley.
13. Geography and Technological Change: David L. Rigby.
Part III: Resource Worlds:.
14. Resources: Dean M. Hanink.
15. Agriculture: Brian Page.
16. Political Ecology: Michael Watts.
17. The Production of Nature: Noel Castree.
18. Single Industry Resource Towns: Roger Hayter.
Part IV: Social Worlds:.
19. Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands ofeconomic geography: Nicky Gregson.
20. Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography: DavidSadler.
21. Labor Unions and Economic Geography: Andrew Herod.
22. State and Governance: Joe Painter.
23. Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time andSpace: Erica Schoenberger.
24. Networks of Ethnicity: Katharyne Mitchell.
Part V: Spaces of Circulation:.
25. The Economic Geography of Global Trade: Richard Grant.
26. Money and Finance: Andrew Leyshon.
27. The Political Economy of International Labor Migration:Helga Leitner.
28. Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability:Susan Hanson.
29. Telecommunications and Economic Space: Barney Warf.
30. International Political Economy: Michael Webber.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University ofMinnesota. He is the author of the Capitalist Space Economy(with Trevor Barnes), A World of Difference (with PhilipPorter), and editor of Scale and Geographic Inquiry (withRobert McMaster), as well as the author of numerous articles onregional political economy.
Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at theUniversity of British Columbia. He is the author or editor of sixprevious books including Logics of Dislocation, and mostrecently The New Industrial Geography (with Meric Gertler).His current research is around the history of geography'squantitative revolution.